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Thursday, December 31, 2015
Sunday, December 27, 2015
Comcast Installs first DOCSIS 3.1 Modem
Comcast announced an important step toward deliver residential gigabit Internet speeds over its existing plant by installing what it claims is the world’s first DOCSIS 3.1 modem on a customer-facing network.
The deployment last month at a home in the Philadelphia area used the standard Comcast cable connections and along with a new modem an a software upgrade to the device that serves that neighborhood.
Comcast said it plans to introduce...
Acacia Communications Files for IPO
Acacia Communications, a start-up based in Maynard, MA, filed a registration statement with the SEC for an initial public offering of its shares.
The company is seeking to list its shares under the symbol ACIA on the Nasdaq Global Market
Acacia, which was founded in 2009, develops high-speed coherent optical interconnect products, including a series of low-power coherent DSP ASICs and silicon PICs. The company has integrated into families...
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Nutanix Files for IPO
Nutanix has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a proposed initial public offering of its Class A common stock.
Nutanix is seeking to list its Class A common stock on The NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol "NTNX.”
Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC will act as lead book-running managers, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC...
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Blueprint: One Box or Two? New Options in “Hyper” Storage
by Stefan Bernbo, founder and CEO of Compuverde
Cisco’s latest Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast offers just one example of what enterprises are facing on the storage front. The report predicts that global mobile data traffic will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 57 percent from 2014 to 2019. That’s a ten-fold increase in just five years.
How will organizations scale to meet these massive new storage demands?...
Monday, December 21, 2015
Blueprint: 2016 and Beyond
by Cam Cullen, Vice President of Global Marketing at Procera Networks
I recently attended the Light Reading Vision Executive 2020 Summit in Dublin, and the event was a great peek into the thought process of some of the largest network operators in the world. Light Reading and Heavy Reading presented a number of different perspectives on what the future holds for telecom operators, some of which where quite compelling. One report that they presented...
Oracle Acquires StackEngine for Container Management
Oracle has acquired StackEngine, a start-up specializing in container operations management. Financial terms were not disclosed.
StackEngine, which is based in Austin, offers software to manage and automate Docker applications, giving organizations the power to compose, deploy, and automate resilient container-native applications. Its flagship product, Container Application Center, is an end-to-end container application management solution...
Pivotal Acquires CloudCredo for Cloud Foundry Expertise
Pivotal, has acquired CloudCredo, a privately-held software developer based in London, along with CloudCredo subsidiary, stayUp, a log analysis technology company for Cloud Foundry.
CloudCredo has a highly-regarded team of Cloud Foundry experts. Pivotal said the acquisition will will better enable enterprise adoption of Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
Pivotal is a spin-out and joint venture of EMC Corporation and its subsidiary VMware. The Pivotal...
NetApp to Acquire SolidFire for All-Flash Data Center Arrays
NetApp agreed to acquire SolidFire for $870 million in cash.
SolidFire specializes in all-flash storage systems for next-generation data centers.
NetApp said the SolidFire acquisition extends its portfolio to include all-flash offerings that address each of the three largest All-Flash Array market segments. For the traditional enterprise infrastructure buyer, the NetApp All Flash FAS (AFF) product line delivers enterprise-grade features across...
Ericsson and Apple Settle Patent Dispute
Ericsson and Apple have signed off on a global patent license agreement, ending a long-running legal dispute in multiple jurisdictions and a case before the U.S. International Trade Commission.. As part of a seven-year agreement, Apple will make an initial payment to Ericsson and, thereafter, will pay on-going royalties. Financial terms were not disclosed.
The deal includes a cross license that covers patents relating to both companies' standard-essential...
TeliaSonera Sells its Stake in Nepal's Ncell
TeliaSonera will sell its 60.4 percent ownership in the Nepalese operator Ncell to Axiata, one of Asia’s largest telecommunication groups, for US$1,030 million on a cash and debt free basis. At the same time, TeliaSonera will dissolve its economic interests in the 20 percent local ownership and receives approximately US$48 million. The transactions are conditional on each other.
Axiata has more than 260 million customers and 25,000 employees....
MTS and Ericsson to Showcase 5G at 2018 World Cup in Russia
Russia's Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) and Ericsson signed an MOU on 5G research and deployment in Russia, including spectrum studies of the next generation network and the building of a test system. The project will support a dialog with government regulators concerning the bands being targeted for 5G and requirements for next generation systems.
The companies said their partnership will also lead to implementation of 5G-related technologies in MTS'...
Friday, December 18, 2015
AT&T Transfers Managed App and Hosting Business to IBM
AT&T agreed to transition its managed application and managed hosting services unit to IBM. IBM will then align these managed service capabilities with the IBM Cloud portfolio. IBM will also acquire equipment and access to floor space in AT&T data centers currently supporting the applications and managed hosting operations.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
AT&T will continue to provide other managed networking services, including...
Juniper Discloses Unauthorized Code in ScreenOS
Juniper Networks disclosed the discovery of unauthorized code in its ScreenOS that could allow a knowledgeable attacker to gain administrative access to NetScreen devices and to decrypt VPN connections.
It is not known who inserted the code into the OS nor how long it has been there.
All NetScreen devices using ScreenOS 6.2.0r15 through 6.2.0r18 and 6.3.0r12 through 6.3.0r20 are affected by these issues and require patching.
The urgent security...
Box Extends its Strategic Sales Partnership with IBM
Box announced a new agreement to expand its strategic partnership with IBM.
The companies will undertake stronger go-to-market and sales commitments. With a new term that has the potential to last for a decade or more, the partnership underscores the companies’ long-term commitment to delivering modern enterprise content management and collaboration solutions.
“IBM and Box are committed to delivering world-class solutions that transform how businesses...
Linux Foundation Backs Blockchain for Transaction Verification
The Linux Foundation announced a new collaborative effort to advance blockchain technology.
Blockchain is a digital technology for recording and verifying transactions. The distributed ledger is a permanent, secure tool that makes it easier to create cost-efficient business networks without requiring a centralized point of control. With distributed ledgers, virtually anything of value can be tracked and traded. The application of this emerging technology...
Spirent Debuts First 50Gb Ethernet Test System
Spirent unveiled the world's first 50 Gbps Higher Speed Ethernet test solution.
Spirent's 50GbE Boost system tests layer 1 to layer 3 quality and highlights error-free performance with different combinations of streams, frame lengths and rates by delivering per-port and per-stream statistics such as latency, frames out of sequence, frame counts and rates, L1 PRBS capability and layer 1 statistics to help debug physical link problems.
"According...
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Equinix Unveils Interconnection Oriented Architecture
Equinix unveiled its Interconnection Oriented Architecture (IOA) -- a blueprint for becoming an interconnected enterprise.
Equinix said goal with IOA is to help companies understand, deploy and benefit from interconnection.
Equinix said it developed IOA as a repeatable engagement model that both enterprises and solution providers can leverage to directly and securely connect people, locations, clouds and data. The goal is to shift the fundamental...
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Opens for Technical Contributions
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which was launched earlier this year to drive the alignment of container technologies, announced its formal open governance structure and new details about its technology stack.
Cloud native applications are container-packaged, dynamically scheduled and microservices-oriented. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation focuses on development of open source technologies, reference architectures and common format...
New MulteFire Alliance Promotes LTE in Unlicensed Spectrum
A new MulteFire Alliance has been formed with the backing of Nokia, Qualcomm, Ericsson and Intel to promote MulteFire, an LTE-based technology for small cells operating solely in unlicensed spectrum, such as the global 5 GHz unlicensed band.
MulteFire will utilize the robust radio link, ease of management and self-organizing characteristics of LTE and its 3GPP standard evolution to deliver enhanced performance in local area network deployments.
“By...
3GPP Release 13 to Include Low Power Wide Area Specs
The GSMA hailed new 3GPP standards for the emerging Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) connections, a market forecast to grow to US$589 billion by 2020, or approximately 47 percent of the machine-to-machine (M2M) market, according to Machina Research.
The new standards, which will be part of 3GPP Release 13, include: Narrow Band IoT (NB-IoT), Extended Coverage GPRS (EC-GPRS) and LTE Machine Type Communication (LTE-MTC).
“This is an important step in enabling...
IDC Estimates 2 Billion Mobile Internet Users in 2016
International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that 3.2 billion people, or 44% of the world's population, will have access to the Internet in 2016. Of this number, more than 2 billion will be using mobile devices to do so.
"Over the next five years global growth in the number of people accessing the Internet exclusively through mobile devices will grow by more than 25% per year while the amount of time we spend on them continues to grow. This change...
Weave Enhances its Networking + Monitoring for Docker
Weaveworks, a start-up with offices in San Francisco and London, announced the 1.4 release of its networking and monitoring software for Docker deployments.
Weave Net 1.4 is a Docker networking plug-in that eliminates the requirement to run and manage an external cluster store (database). The plug-in simplifies and accelerates the deployment of Docker containers by removing the requirement to deploy, manage and maintain a centralized database in...
Canada's Shaw Communications Diversifies with Bid for WIND Mobile
Shaw Communications agreed to acquire WIND Mobile Corp. for approximately CAD$1.6 billion.
WIND is Canada's largest non-incumbent wireless services provider, serving approximately 940,000 subscribers across Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta with 50MHz of spectrum in each of these regions. The company reports a 47% increase in its subscriber base over the past two years which has translated into strong growth in revenue and EBITDA. In calendar...
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Ciena to Offer Hardened Version of ONOS Open-Source Software
Ciena announced plans for commercial version of the Open Networking Operating System (ONOS). Blue Planet ONOS will extend Ciena’s Blue Planet network orchestration software to enable highly-scalable, flow-based control of data center networks.
Ciena said its hardened version of ONOS, to be marketed as Blue Planet ONOS, will give service providers the ability to take advantage of the cumulative software expertise of the open source community combined...
IHS: 5-Year Small Cell Backhaul Market Worth $6.5 Billion
IHS is forecasting that a cumulative $6.5 billion will be spent worldwide on outdoor small cell backhaul equipment between 2015 and 2019.
The latest IHS Infonetics Small Cell Mobile Backhaul Equipment report tracks equipment used for transporting traffic from outdoor small cell sites, such as those attached to light poles, utility poles, and the sides and tops of buildings. Some highlights:
Much of the activity in the small cell market continues...
Ekinops Supplies 100G DWDM in Kazakhstan
Transtelecom JSC, one of the largest service providers in the Republic of Kazakhstan, has deployed 100G DWDM optical transport equipment from Ekinops across its country-wide optical network and to the border of China.
Transtelecom owns more than thirteen thousand kilometers of fiber-optic cables throughout Kazakhstan, primarily along the railway lines. Transtelecom wanted to increase its backbone capacity in Kazakhstan and their ability to carry...
Huawei Marine Builds 100G Cable for Maldives
Huawei Marine is working with Ooredoo Maldives to deploy a Nation-wide Fiber Optic Submarine Cable to the Maldives.
The nationwide submarine cable, which will span 1,200k, will use Huawei Marine’s 100G technology. The cable will address the country’s increasing communication needs across developing islands and new resort locations.
“As the internet continues to bring remarkable value to individuals, families and businesses around the world, we...
US Internet Readies 2.5G and 5G Residential Service in Minneapolis
US Internet is preparing to launch 2.5 and 5 Gbps fiber Internet service in Q1 2016 via its "Active Ethernet" fiber platform for residents and businesses of the City of Minneapolis.
USI launched a 10G service in Minneapolis a year ago. The new services bridge the gap in speed. Plans now include 1, 2.5, 5 and 10 Gbps at $65/mo., $99/mo., $199/mo. and $399/mo., respectively.
Travis Carter, CTO and Co-Founder of US Internet, said: "Our top local...
